Environmental and occupational impacts from U.S. beef slaughtering are of same magnitude of beef foodborne illnesses on human health

Li, Shaobin; Subbiah, Jeyamkondan; Dvorak, Bruce I.

doi:10.1016/j.envint.2019.05.051

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“…(2014), which developed a model that simulates compensation between milk and beef cattle induced by a change scenario of cattle population or production objectives, evaluating the environmental aspects. Figure 4B present the studies of Li et al. (2019a) that evaluated hazards concerning meat consumption, occupational hazards and impacts on human health, bringing new perspectives for the meat production regulation; and, Li et al.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Life cycle assessment and relations with triple bottom line in meat production: a systematic approach about cleaner production

DENES

Schneider

Kipper

2022

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PurposeThe objective of the present research was to carry out a scientific map about life cycle assessment (LCA) and triple bottom line (TBL) at slaughterhouse areas, looking for Cleaner Production practices aiming at recognizing strategic themes for maintaining the sustainability of productive systems, according to the development of sustainable practices and production evolution in slaughterhouse areas.Design/methodology/approachThe literature analysis was based on general approach, with steps adapted of study phases and activities of preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analyses (PRISMA) recommendation guide to do systematic literature review. Activities were subdivided to discuss the results in two kinds of analysis: quantitative and qualitative.FindingsThe main findings of our study reinforce the LCA importance in slaughterhouses to promote Cleaner Production, so that the main measures suggested and/or adopted by different authors include the substitution of raw materials by feeding, with the adoption of grains, protein supplements with less environmental impact in the composition of the feed and changes in the processes seeking for better energy efficiency and optimization of water consumption in meat processing.Research limitations/implicationsThere is another action of sustainability considering LCA and Cleaner Production practices in the industrial meat area that should also be considered. These actions are restricted to documents of business circulation, with limited access since they involve issues regarding innovations in economic and technological aspects of slaughterhouses, as well as industrial confidentiality. Furthermore, in patent bases it is possible to advance the studies looking for how the digital transformation has been carried out in this industrial branch, since the 4.0 transformation industry tends to use clean technologies.Originality/valueThere are LCA models with a systemic approach to measure the level of sustainability of a process, comprising analysis of impacts related to different areas: environmental, social and economic although in terms of the meat production chain, the impact analysis focuses mainly on the environmental area. So, future works should be developed in meat production chain to assess social and economic impacts, i.e. a sustainable LCA addressing the three areas to consolidate models and standardize metrics with a scientific basis.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Life cycle assessment and relations with triple bottom line in meat production: a systematic approach about cleaner production

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Schneider

Kipper

2022

MEQ

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“…Sigurnjak et al, 2019). Impacts related to capital goods (production, use, depreciation and final disposal of materials that make up the WAS machine) were excluded due to lack of information, however considering their human health impact negligible compared to that of operational consumable inputs over multiple years lifespan (Li et al, 2019). The discharge water produced by the WAS operation can be viewed as an effluent to be valorized through the agronomic exploitation of its nutrients.…”

Section: Human Health Impact Assessmentmentioning

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Improvement of human health and environmental costs in the European Union by air scrubbers in intensive pig farming

Costantini

Bacenetti

Coppola

et al. 2020

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…The process-specific data (e.g., resource inputs and waste outputs in Fig. 1) are collected from the two commercial US beef processing plants located in the Midwest (Li et al, 2019a(Li et al, , 2018bZiara et al, 2018). Those data are further normalized based on the functional unit (1000 kg of live-cattle weight) and processed as the technology matrix coefficient for the process-based system.…”

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Life cycle assessment of the U.S. beef processing through integrated hybrid approach

Qin

Subbiah

et al. 2020

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Hybrid life cycle assessment (LCA) incorporating process-based and economic input-output (EIO)based inventory data has been applied in various industries (e.g., wind energy, biofuel). Few hybrid LCA studies have been found in the food industry. This work analyzes the life cycle environmental impacts of the US beef processing industry using process-based and integrated hybrid LCA. The process-based inventory includes all resource inputs and waste outputs associated with a beef processing plant. The EIO-based inventory includes key activities missing in the process-based inventory, such as technical and management service, wood and paper, and industrial equipment. Ten environmental impact categories from TRACI v2.1 and one aggregated environmental single score are considered. The results show that environmental impact from EIO-based inventory contributes a meaningful fraction of the impact for ozone depletion (67%), respiratory effects (42%), fossil fuel depletion (38%), and smog (28%) (as opposed to process-based inventory). These results emphasize the relative potential for the US beef processing industry of greening the supply chain (e.g., technical and management services, industrial equipment) to reduce environmental impacts. Furthermore, we perform uncertainty and global sensitivity analysis for key parameters of all environmental

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Environmental and occupational impacts from U.S. beef slaughtering are of same magnitude of beef foodborne illnesses on human health

Cited by 18 publications

References 28 publications

Life cycle assessment and relations with triple bottom line in meat production: a systematic approach about cleaner production

Life cycle assessment and relations with triple bottom line in meat production: a systematic approach about cleaner production

Improvement of human health and environmental costs in the European Union by air scrubbers in intensive pig farming

Life cycle assessment of the U.S. beef processing through integrated hybrid approach

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